Health
Care

3nov18

A Short History of American Medical InsuranceJohn Steele GordonPerhaps
the most astonishing thing about modern medicine is just how very
modern it is. More than 90 percent of the medicine being practiced
today did not exist in 1950. Two centuries ago medicine was still an
art, not a science at all. As recently as the 1920s, long after the
birth of modern medicine, there was usually little the medical
profession could do, once disease set in, other than alleviate some of
the symptoms and let nature take its course.

30dec17

I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender
Ideology
Has Infiltrated My Field.Michelle Cretella, M.D.Just a few short years ago, not many could
have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women’s
access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina. But transgender
ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives
of the most innocent among us – children – and with the apparent
growing support of the professional medical community.

Stopping A Global Killer – MalariaNational GeographicIt
begins with a bite, a painless bite. The mosquito comes in the night,
alights on an exposed patch of flesh, and assumes the hunched,
head-lowered posture of a sprinter in the starting blocks. Then she
plunges her stiletto mouthparts into the skin.

9aug09

Health Care Policy and FreedomWelcome to The Heartland Institute’s Health
Care Policy Issue Suite, a comprehensive resource for people who
support a free-market approach to improving the nation’s health care
system.

17may09

Single Payer: Why Government-Run
Health Care Will Harm Both Patients and DoctorsRobert A. BookThe establishment of a "single payer" health
care system would inevitably result in lower payments for physician and
other health care providers. The immediate effect of having a single
("stingy") payer would be lower incomes for physicians and a reduction
in the supply of active physicians, thereby impairing access to health
care for all patients.

New Research Indicts RitalinKelly
Patricia O’MearaThe outcome of this research was
so surprising that team leader Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist who is
associate laboratory director for life sciences, told the media that
she and the team were “shocked as hell” at the results. “The data,”
explains Volkow, “clearly show that the notion that Ritalin is a weak
stimulant is completely incorrect.”

29aug01

Journal of the AMA:
Ritalin Acts Much Like CocaineAdvanced
research has answered a 40-year-old question about methylphenidate
(Ritalin), which is taken daily by 4 million to 6 million
children in the United States: how does it work? The answer
may unsettle many parents, because the drug acts much like cocaine.

6aug01

Why Democrats are so AngryNeal BoortzThe
Patients' Bill of Rights was never about new private health care rights
for patients. It was all about moving the United States closer to
nationalized – government-controlled – health care.

1jul01

Medical
MalpracticeKim
WeissmanContrary to their own inflated egos,
however, the fact of having graduated from medical school does not
automatically make doctors experts in social science, statistical
analysis, Constitutional law, or history.

24jun01

Medical Control, Medical
CorruptionIn
law, a profession with much freer entry, some lawyers get rich, others
make middle incomes, and others have to go into another line of work.
But thanks to almost a century and a half of AMA statism, even terrible
doctors get lavish incomes.

22may01

Socialized Medicine in 10 Easy
StepsMerrill
Matthews Jr., Ph.D.A host of new programs show
how Republicans unwittingly lead the political parade toward increasing
government control of health care.

PC,
M.D.: How Political Correctness
Is Corrupting MedicineSally SatelIn
the course of expanding the purview of public health to encompass the
quest for social justice, the academic elite are warping the
indispensable mission of their profession: the practical, here-and-now
prevention of injury and disease.

29mar01

Disarming
QuestionsJacob
SullumThe absurd idea that physicians are
authorities on anything that can cause death or injury reflects the
arrogance of a cartelized profession whose members flaunt their power
as official gatekeepers, restrict competition with the government’s
help, and routinely substitute their judgment for that of their
customers.

28mar01

Boundary
Violation: Gun Politics
in the Doctor’s OfficeTimothy
Wheeler, MDSocial activists are taking their war
on gun ownership to a new battleground: the doctor's office. Does your
doctor care about your family’s safety? Or instead, does he use your
trust and his authority to advance a political agenda?

Canada Rethinks Its MedicareMany
affluent Canadians simply jump the queue by traveling to the US for
treatment at their own expense."The key is a
properly managed waiting list." This incredibly
bureaucratic assessment of the problem is typical. Instead of solving
the problem of waiting lists, manage the lists better!

5dec99

Doctors
Deadlier Than GunsThe
National Academies Institute for Medicine concludes that the U.S.
health care system has some serious flaws